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Axes
by Bruce Ure at 13:46 21/10/04 (Blogs::Bruce)
It's stuff like this that keeps me awake.
If you could extend the axis of every man-made thing in the world that turns about one infinitely in both directions in the manner of a perfectly parallel laser beam, what would it look like from space?

I mean each and every motor, pivot, spinny thing, you name it, large or small. And if they extended beneath the earth they would carry on back out the other side.

How far above the earth's surface would you have to go to be able to hold a football without it being intersected by at least one of them? How far up would the laser mesh look solid? Yards? Miles? Would there be dense clusters around big cities?

Think of all those motors... car engines, walkmans, watches, I mean there must be thousands of axes in every modern home.

No wonder I never get any bloody work done.

:bu:

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